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• I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

  Lily Rabe

  Jobs, Horror Stories, American Horror Story

  "Lily Rabe Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, Her Character's Fate, Favorite Storylines, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 16, 2013.

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• I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

  Martha Raddatz

  Car, Lasts, Minutes

  "Women Reporters Face Added Risks In Conflict Zones". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 22, 2011.

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• I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

  Octavia Spencer

  Real, People, Honest

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• In an interview with a journalist, you look petty taking the pot shot but in a slick ad you can really do damage - including unfair damage - from afar. It is not that much different than waging a war by a drone than by hand-to-hand combat.

  Greta Van Susteren

  War, Hands, Afar

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

  Greta Van Susteren

  Lying, Way, Polite

  "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make me smart and then go to sleep.

  Jaden Smith

  Jobs, Smart, Sleep

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

  Neil Strauss

  Wanted

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• I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

  Neil Strauss

  Thinking, Musician, Boring

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• I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.

  Neil Strauss

  Honesty, People, Interesting

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• One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

  Bernie Taupin

  Years, Quitting, Reason

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.

  Jim Talent

  Circles, People, Decision

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  Alicia Vikander

  Thinking, Film, Frightened

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• I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Media, Evil

  "Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults". Interview with Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest.

  Shane Warne

  Thinking, Player, Say Anything

  Interview, uk.askmen.com.

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• I don't really like doing interviews.

  Sean Young

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Asking, Kind

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.

  Joseph Morgan

  Sexy, Vampire, Made

  "Joseph Morgan THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Interview; Hopes the Writers Bring Back Klaus for Another Season". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

  Denise Mina

  Jobs, School, Law

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.

  Tim Cahill

  Hate, Men, Film

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• Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an anecdote he ever told me that was not in some way intended to convey a sense of his own superiority to everyone. . One wonders how a person of his character could produce such beauty.

  Gene Lees

  Tired, Character, Talking

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• Mick Fleetwood was one of my first interviews. And if you've ever talked to that dude, he's the sweetest guy in the world - he's just a trip.

  Dave Grohl

  Guy, World, Firsts

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• It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

  George R. R. Martin

  New York, Book, Years

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• I am a demanding person to interview.

  Nico

  Persons

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• I want to be a Kid Reporter because I would like to meet interesting people, and I also love being in front of the camera! As a Kid Reporter, I would love to learn how to be a better writer and interview people.

  Charlotte Arnold

  Kids, Love Is, People

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• There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

  Billy Eichner

  Men, Years, People

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